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http://minilife.me/

by newy • 15 years ago

36 22 15 years ago

minilife.me

m1• 15 years ago

Urgh, sign in with facebook? Pretty cool otherwise.

JonLim• 15 years ago

This was my reservation as well. I'm pretty stingy about who I give Facebook access to.

CyruzDraxs5• 15 years ago

Was going to do Twitter also, but didn't have enough time.

draebek• 15 years ago

I was actually confused by this: it wasn't obvious to me that I had to sign in with Facebook to use this site. I actually tried clicking off it and using the cursor keys to move... something, anything, before I decided that signing in with Facebook must be a requirement. I am not used to sites that require me to sign in to Facebook to use them.

CyruzDraxs5• 15 years ago

Ascii cocks, yay. >.>

robinduckett• 15 years ago

Doesn't work.

CyruzDraxs5• 15 years ago

What about it doesn't work?

sirclueless• 15 years ago

Application Error. Check your logs for details.

harpastum• 15 years ago

Sorta similar to an experiment I made a while ago [1]. I do think there's something to spatially-oriented chat, but it doesn't seem to get much traction

[1] http://openforum.samwarmuth.com/n/newmap -- You're a dot. Move using the arrow keys, type+enter to talk. You can click on stuff to build walls. (N.B. doesn't work on firefox)

cmars2• 15 years ago

[f] Sign in with Facebook

closes tab

CyruzDraxs5• 15 years ago

That's kind of the whole point of the app.

cmars2• 15 years ago

Ok... but I won't log into these kind of FB-connected sites before seeing a demo of what it does and what it will do w/ my FB account & contacts. Needs a video or a sandbox or something.

joshmanders• 15 years ago

Likewise.

cdata• 15 years ago

Frankly, that describes the whole Node Knockout this year. It was pretty disappointing.

vessenes• 15 years ago

Your loss.

Using FB for SSO increases conversion rates, and takes a whole bunch of burden off app developers. It's a big win for everyone, including you, who may wish to get more cool apps per total programmer-hour in the world.

exit• 15 years ago

any screenshots? i don't have a fb account and am not about to set one up to try this.

scottostler• 15 years ago

I like the concept, and there's a lot of directions you can take it in if you want to keep working on it.

Our team had a similar theme (http://psyche.cc), though we focused on images instead of text.

lachenmayer• 15 years ago

Awesome idea, had great fun racing other people I finally ended up talking to! Some qualms/suggestions: - Text wrapping doesn't work properly, the text box doesn't resize with larger messages, the text just gets cut off. - If you miss a message, i.e. someone says something after the message, there is no way of looking at what they said. Some sort of history would be cool. (Maybe scroll out a list when you click on the user?) - It would be cool if you could hold down the arrow keys to move, right now the movement is one by one. To be fair, this does make races more fun! (not that big a bother at all, to be honest!)

Cool idea!

BoppreH• 15 years ago

Very similar to http://yourworldoftext.com/ , but that one was text only.

I love the concept, but I'm more inclined to Your World of Text because of the ASCII drawings and anonymity.

sil3ntmac• 15 years ago

Hey, I made almost the exact same thing a few months ago:

http://nearish.com

Drop me an email at joe@nearish.com if you'd like to talk, I am interested in your solution to scaling.

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